Feargal Lynch won two graded stakes at Laurel Park today, while Nik Juarez had a happy homecoming, taking the third graded event.
Teresa Z earned the first stakes score of her career, taking the G3 Monmouth Oaks Saturday.
Four-year-old Pool Winner lodged a dominant victory in yesterday’s My Frenchman Stakes for the first added-money win of his career.
One Haskell entrant had been pointing to the race for nine months, another for just five days. In the end, both were happy they’d come.
Valid, the hard-hitting Virginia-bred trained by Marcus Vitali, controlled throughout to win today’s G3 Skip Away Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
Jockey Nik Juarez will be back in action this weekend after signing a random drug testing agreement with Maryland Jockey Club officials.
Jockeys Xavier Perez and Nik Juarez have been suspended by Maryland stewards, Perez for failing a drug test and Juarez for failing to provide a sample to test.
Jockey Nik Juarez — with just one win from 40 starts prior to today — registered six victories at Laurel Park today.
Several horses with connection to the mid-Atlantic region ran in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup races. Here’s how they did.
Jockey Nik Juarez won his first two stakes and then got engaged — all in a 10-day period this summer. Next up: the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, aboard Valid.